Masterpiece: The Scream

This card is the most labor intensive card I have ever done to date. I have only done one other card with acrylics but this one I used a gel medium in the acrylics and a totally new and fun technique. The colors are vivid and even though I felt like I could SCREAM myself after doing bookoos of these things.... the more I look at it.... the more i love it. Hope you do too. I still have a few to trade but it might cost ya your first born. Just kidding :)

Smoky Mountain Lights

This was my first piece of work down by handpainting with acrylics.
I also used pearl pigments for the first time to add shimmering effects to the jar and the fire flies.
This was very challenging.
Limited Edition

These Hands

just purely a carving...
no embellishments for this limited edition card

Salome

This image is from the "Salome" art piece by Alfons Mucha.
The card was done for The Mucha Challenge swap by The Red Cat.
Limited Edition of only 10 cards each card is watercolored by hand.

The image didn't stamp well on watercolor paper so I had to fill in the lines of the image to get a crisp image... but I am glad I used the watercolor paper. The vivid translucent watercolors make the card my favorite.

Hobyah - ("Hobby-Yar")

Hobyah is a card done for The Froudian Friends LTC swap which featured cards done with the art of Brian Froud as the subject matter. I used a completely new technique and did some experimenting with new materials. The image was encased beneath a slick, clear sticker material. I finished the front of the card with dapples of cranberry colored alcohol ink.

4 layers!

This was tough...
still not as hard as my precise 3 layer Obama in Color image but very tough!
This image and card was done for the LOST swap I hosted recently.
The image is based on the Season 3 episode called "Everyman for Himself". It is kinda hard to see the lightest layer in this scanned image but it's a bit more vivid in the originals

too pooped to pop!

I have simply been too tired, busy, sick and too pooped to pop!
It has been more than a month since my last post of art card images here.
I have made a few in that time but I just haven't updated the blog...
maybe I can remedy that ;)

LOST with... Sawyer

OMG!
This was so much fun!
Maybe because I have the hots for Sawyer...
or maybe because it seemed easy to do this layered image in comparison to my Obama layered stamp... or maybe I am just getting the hang of it...?

2 layered Hand Carved rubber stamp
Limited Edition

LOST with.... John Locke

Another layered stamp that was a great deal of fun.
However...Locke is such a complex character it was hard to decide the color choices etc.
Hand Carved Rubber Stamp image - 2 Layers
Limited Edition

Unwanted Words

Unwanted Words...
The card on the left is the "Challenge Edition".
It has a glaze over part of the image.

Obama HOPE in color

This is a 3 layered image....
and the hardest card I have ever done.
I have hours upon hours in these cards which I had promised myself back in the Summer that I would do if Obama won the election. Well.... he did and the rest as they say is history. :)
Obama had some awesome campaign art. I hope to do his other campaign images as art cards also.

Obama HOPE

This card was created using 1 layer of the 3 layered Obama stamp I carved in November '08. The back has a subdued imprint of the same image with card info hand written over it.
Limited Edition of 40

Peridot Leo

I did only 6 of these cards....
before i sent the stamp off to "3 Blind Mice"

Buncombe Rifles

do a Google search to learn about the "Buncombe Rifles" in the War of Northern Aggression

Good Ole Bill